dumb ass contractor, im going to have to fire him...

I made a thread in OTD about a guy I'm working with, he's the
contractor, anyway he's OK with electricals but there's a lot of
stuff he's just clueless on, we were installing a bathroom in an
old utility/laundry room, bust the concrete, run the pipes, set
the shower, drywall, level the floor, paint, tile, etc...

I was out sick a couple of days and he 'leveled' the floor by
using portland cement, I got there the morning after he did it
and immediately knew I'd have to redo it, he mixed it really
stiff, there were a few large humps and it simply didnt bond to
the old floor, I walked across it and it started cracking in the
thin spots, I called him and he was liek "it should have bonded"
I explained why it didnt and what was needed and told him I'd be
at lowes to meet him in a few minutes, we got back and ripped up
the old stuff and even after I explained a second time at lowes
he kept insisting it should have been fine because it was so
thick, portland cement shrinks when it dries, when it shrinks it
pulls away from the substrate, anyway it took an hour to undo his
mess and another to do it right, no real loss other than cost of
materials and a little time

nearing job completion we had a set of bifold doors, 6 foot
span, he tries fitting the first door and it's 1/2" too tall, he
goes outside, lops a little off the bottom, a little off the top
and brigs it in, there's a wave across the top and it looks like
shit and he starts to panic, I told him not to worry, I could
fix it, I tols him to take what ever is needed off the bottom
only with the next door, he didnt listen, claimed they had to
match so he needed to do the same thing, he went out, did it his
way and for some strange reason he go the same results

now he's really panicking because it's looking like the ocean,
he takes the doors out, nails the pieces he cut off back on the
top and for some reason it doesnt look right, well DUH... he's
all panicked becasue it's cutting into his pocket to buy new
doors, I keep reassuring him that I can fix them and he's still
flipping out, I spend 30 minutes with a planer and sander on the
top and flatten things back out, trim a little off an edge on
the bottom of one and hang them and they look great

back down the hill we go, he take a roller to the wood grained
doors and makes them look like shit again, he's a nightmare to
work with, cant hang or finish drywall, uses the cheapest crap
for watered down primer and then blames the paint when stuff
shows through, caulks everything that's supposed to get painted,
corners and stuff on the walls and ceiling and expects a perfect
cut in on a 1/4" radius, wants to paint trim after it's
installed instead of just touching up afterward

if he'd started listening beforehand it would have saved a week
of work, meant less clean up and been a much nicer finished product

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